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The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) works
to improve the well-being of people in developing countries
by enhancing the diverse and essential contributions
livestock make to smallholder farming. Two-thirds of the
world's domestic animals are kept in developing countries,
where over 90% are owned by rural smallholders. Ruminant
animals provide poor farmers with the resources they need
most: high-quality food, animal traction and transport,
manure to fertilise croplands, a daily income through
dairying, and insurance against disaster. ILRI research
products are helping to solve the severe problems that hold
back animal agriculture, sustainable food production and
economic development in the tropics.
ILRI, whose headquarters are in Nairobi, Kenya, is a
non-profit institution governed by an international Board of
Trustees. The institute belongs to the Consultative Group on
International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). This consortium
of 58 donor countries, foundations and organisations funds
the work of ILRI and 15 other international agricultural
research centres. Most of these Centres are located in
developing countries; all are working to help smallholder
farmers in those countries intensify and sustain their food
production. ILRI began operations in 1995 with consolidation
of staff and facilities of two former CGIAR livestock
centres: the International Laboratory for Research on Animal
Diseases (ILRAD), based in Nairobi, Kenya, and the
International Livestock Centre for Africa (ILCA), based in
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Feeding an extra 90 million people a year, most of them
in developing countries, while preserving the earth's land,
water and biodiversity will challenge the world well into
this first century of the new millenium. To help meet that
challenge, ILRI supports Future Harvest a CGIAR public
awareness campaign that builds understanding of the critical
role international agricultural research plays in
forestalling a food and environmental crisis of the first
order in the twenty-first century.
For more information visit http://www.cgiar.org/ilri*
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